PDF Properties
Using a custom set of XML tags inside your HTML, you can insert both custom metadata as well as instructions for how the PDF would be viewed in a PDF viewer application (subject of course to that application supporting those features).
Options
You use the (optional) tag <pdfproperties> and within that tag you
can insert <metainfo> and <pdfpreferences>
sections as shown in the instructions below. Within the
<metainfo> tag, you can add <prop> tags
with @name, @value attribute pairs with the data you wish
to store in the PDF metadata. Anything without one of the recognized, standard PDF
names (author, title, subject,
creator, keywords) are stored in custom metadata in
the PDF.
The <pdfpreferences> section allows you to insert one or more
<pref> tags with specific @name,
@value pairs that control the way the resulting PDF is displayed
with a viewer that supports standard PDF view attributes. The support
name, @value pairs are listed below and grouped into
all the available categories:
General PDF Options
These options let you control some general information about the generated PDF.
bookmarks - sets whether PDF bookmarks are generated or not. The default
is "false" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "true" if you want
bookmarks in PDF. Note that bookmarks are only generated for interpreted
hierarchical information. All h1 elements and there following
h2 elements and so on. Skipping levels will break the sequence and
the bookmarks will not be correct.
pdf-version - sets the PDF version number. The default is version 1.5
for Cloudformatter but you set @value to values like "1.3", "1.4",
"1.6" or "1.7" if you wish to change the version. Be aware thar some other features
could be disabled by setting the version too low.
compress - sets whether the PDF is compressed or not. The default is
"true" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "false" if you want
uncompressed PDF.
linearize - sets whether the PDF is linearized or not. The default is
"false" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "true" if you want to
optimize a long PDF for web view.
PDF View Options
These options let you control how the PDF when opened appears to the end user.
view-mode - Choose from one of the following:
auto- If there are bookmarks in the document, the bookmarks pane is displayed. Otherwise, all auxiliary panes are hidden.show-none- All auxiliary panes are hidden.show-bookmarks- The bookmarks pane is displayed.show-thumbnails- The thumbnails pane is displayed.full-screen- The document is displayed in full screen-mode.
initial-zoom - Choose from one of the following:
auto- Page scaling is not specified.fit- The page is scaled to fit completely into the view port.fit-width- The page is scaled so that its width matches the width of the view port.fit-height- The page is scaled so that its height matches the height of the view port.###or####%- The page is scaled by the number or percentage specified.
page-layout - Choose from one of the following:
auto- Uses settings of viewer application.single-page- Displays one page at a time.continuous- Displays pages continuously in one column.two-columns-left- Displays pages continuously in two columns, with odd-numbered pages to the left.two-columns-right- Displays pages continuously in two columns, with odd-numbered pages to the right.two-pages-left- Displays pages in two columns, by two pages at a time, with odd-numbered pages to the left.two-pages-right- Displays pages in two columns, by two pages at a time, with odd-numbered pages to the right.
viewer-preferences - A comma separated list of the following
possibilities:
hide-toolbar- Hides the viewer application's tool bars when the document is active.hide-menubar- Hides the viewer application's menu bar when the document is active.hide-window-ui- Hides user interface elements in the document's window (such as scroll bars and navigation controls), leaving only the document's contents displayed.fit-window- Resizes the document's window to fit the size of the first displayed page.center-window- Positions the document's window in the center of the screen.display-document-title- Controls whether the window's title bar displays the document title taken from the "title" metadata field.
PDF Security
These options allow you to specify owner and user security in the PDF output. User-level security can inject a password to be used to open the PDF, while owner-level security can control what can be done with the PDF (like printing it or copying the data from it).
userpassword - Sets the user password that must be entered to view the
PDF. There are no options, the @value passed is the password to be
used.
ownerpassword - Sets the owner password that must be entered to enable
advanced processing of the PDF. There are no options, the @value passed
is the password to be used. An ownerpassword is used to lock down certain privledges
that an owner will grant to a recipient of the PDF. Without the owner password,
recipients can be restricted from certain things. By default they are restricted
from everything, and you can then specify what additional things you allow by using
userpriviledges.
userpriviledges - A comma separated list of the following
possibilities:
print- Enables printing the document.modify- Enables editing the document.copy- Enables copying text and images from the document to the clipboard.annotate- Enables adding notations to the document and changing the field values.
PDF Pre-Press Options
These allow you to specify crop marks, bleeds and registration marks to be applied to the PDF.
crop-offset - specify offsets from the meaningful content on the page to
the edges of the physical media (/MediaBox entry in the PDF page dictionary). Its
value is a series of 1 to 4 length specifiers that set offsets from the edges of the
page area to the corresponding edges of the /MediaBox. Rules for expanding the value
are the same as for the padding property in CSS.
bleed - specify the bleeds — an extra space around the page area into
which the contents of the page may protrude (/BleedBox entry in the PDF page
dictionary). Its value is a series of 1 to 4 length specifiers that set offsets from
the edges of the page area to the corresponding edges of the /BleedBox. Rules for
expanding the value are the same as for the padding property in CSS.
crop-mark-width - defines line width for the crop marks, setting it to 0
disables drawing of crop marks.
bleed-mark-width - defines line width for the bleed marks, setting it to
0 disables drawing of bleed marks.
printer-mark - specify additional SVG images to be drawn in the offset
area surrounding the page (specified by crop-offset and bleed parameters). Printer
marks are clipped to the outside of the bleed rectangle. The @value is
a URL to an SVG you have. This sample has two URLs (one for a colorbar and one for a
registration mark) you can also use if you like.
The following code is what is behind this page for producing the PDF. Of course, you would only see the things supported by your PDF viewer you use. If you wish to see them all in action, then use "download" and Adobe Reader to view the PDF.
Recent changes in some browsers will not treat this XML as XML. Instead it tries (incorrectly) to not close tags. For best results, be sure to use open and close tags and not a self-closing tag.
<pdfproperties style="display:none;">
<metainfo>
<prop name="author" value="Xportability LLC"></prop>
<prop name="title"
value="Xportability Cloudformatter: Showing Custom
PDF Properties"></prop>
<prop name="subject" value="A Cloudformatter Document"></prop>
<prop name="creator" value="css2pdf@cloudformatter.com"></prop>
<prop name="keywords" value="CSS, PDF, Cloudformatter"></prop>
<prop name="custom1" value="value1"></prop>
<prop name="custom2" value="value2"></prop>
<prop name="custom3" value="value3"></prop>
<prop name="custom4" value="value4"></prop>
</metainfo>
<pdfpreferences>
<pref name="bookmarks" value="true"></pref>
<pref name="pdf-version" value="1.6"></pref>
<pref name="view-mode" value="auto"></pref>
<pref name="initial-zoom" value="fit-height"></pref>
<pref name="page-layout" value="two-columns-left"></pref>
<pref name="viewer-preferences" value="display-document-title"></pref>
<pref name="crop-offset" value="0.5in"></pref>
<pref name="crop-mark-width" value="1px"></pref>
<pref name="printer-mark"
value="http://www.cloudformatter.com/Resources/Images/registration.svg"></pref>
<pref name="printer-mark"
value="http://www.cloudformatter.com/Resources/Images/colorbar.svg"></pref>
</pdfpreferences>
</pdfproperties>
Sample Output H2
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Molestie dolor praesent ipsum autem. Amet aliquyam molestie lorem feugait accumsan sit odio et accumsan magna lorem ipsum takimata dolores et lorem et. Vero consequat gubergren hendrerit lorem eirmod amet est justo lorem. Nonumy takimata sea amet et duis. Clita feugait blandit.
Sample Output H3
Ipsum sadipscing sit dolore lorem sed diam eleifend accumsan te kasd et feugiat invidunt eos possim. No justo diam eos illum consectetuer eu et ipsum odio justo nonumy voluptua eos elitr. Labore takimata duis ipsum takimata sit exerci elitr luptatum sadipscing. Delenit diam esse labore nonumy sit adipiscing duis zzril sit stet invidunt et ipsum duis sit. Magna sit et sit justo autem consetetur sanctus mazim.
Clita elitr ut sanctus elitr ullamcorper ipsum aliquyam velit assum et. Consetetur ad sea no dignissim. Takimata magna sea sit tempor eirmod est sadipscing dolores erat elitr elitr. Dolor gubergren nonumy sit exerci nobis. Consetetur et kasd dignissim. Tempor est lobortis eirmod nulla no consectetuer iriure et ut clita esse dolores. Magna qui ipsum ipsum takimata tempor amet vel invidunt magna sanctus erat ipsum sadipscing nostrud vel ipsum. Stet eum lorem vel sit accumsan tempor tempor sed lorem et.
Sample Output H4
Odio ut ipsum. Sanctus zzril et tempor volutpat aliquyam justo qui laoreet. Amet aliquyam eum erat sit enim justo ea et. Volutpat labore vero ea accusam dolor amet rebum takimata labore justo amet duo vulputate at erat accusam. Ipsum at te at dolor elitr clita magna ad accusam ut erat vel takimata stet. Ipsum laoreet takimata vel et accusam kasd nostrud et assum stet lorem et dolor tation dolores aliquyam. Amet zzril eu lorem liber magna et nonumy ipsum vero consetetur nulla est iriure magna est lorem duo.
Elitr amet no. Dolores feugait nihil delenit kasd erat eu eirmod dolore lorem stet kasd qui eirmod dolores at. Nulla vero tempor ea dolor et enim nostrud illum eirmod dolor amet elitr sit amet dolores sadipscing sanctus. Dolor sit erat qui no. Te dolores dolore ipsum. Nonumy sit sit eos labore tempor sadipscing lorem delenit quis. Est amet enim sadipscing. Quis stet dolores magna. Diam sanctus facilisi ipsum lorem et dolore gubergren sadipscing lorem amet. Lorem amet ipsum ea duo et dolor sea eirmod hendrerit. Et diam praesent est ut erat labore wisi ea dolores elitr sanctus iriure.
Sample Output H4
Ut lorem ea stet accusam clita erat ad dolor justo. Duis elitr lorem ea eos sanctus ut dignissim lorem commodo diam duo aliquyam dolore no et ut hendrerit. Dolores sea eros at magna ipsum vero at accusam ut sadipscing justo hendrerit ex at amet elitr clita vel. Ut sadipscing voluptua justo sed justo suscipit ut dolore veniam sed consetetur et diam ea dolore ut. Ut sit dolor magna erat dolore gubergren consequat sadipscing delenit velit dolore duo et. Commodo et accumsan et in labore vero clita quis consetetur sed. Option eos et dolor eum ea et facilisi duo lorem lorem rebum delenit no facilisis dolor sanctus duis. In nonumy amet.
Consetetur amet clita et amet nonumy liber invidunt dolor et aliquyam sit sadipscing augue magna consectetuer. Labore amet lorem dolores doming velit consequat facilisis adipiscing ut rebum consetetur et ut nonumy sed ea. Mazim ipsum tempor exerci sed minim ea stet magna stet et ipsum consetetur dolore eirmod ex est kasd. Justo dolores vel. Diam et duo placerat. Magna facilisi elitr sadipscing erat vulputate iusto sed sit facilisi esse tempor consectetuer consequat. Ut sit feugiat dolore magna nulla dolor dolore consetetur sit amet accumsan gubergren eos dolore. Kasd et kasd magna tation nisl et eos et eum illum duis luptatum facer lorem. Labore diam consetetur nonumy lorem et eros nibh sed accusam ipsum.
Sample Output H3
Magna eum te. Nonumy sea dolores accusam ipsum autem rebum justo sanctus diam. Amet diam lorem laoreet dolor quis diam et erat duis sea consequat erat ad. Dolore nulla accumsan diam facer dolor at et stet rebum invidunt duo consequat clita magna odio praesent velit eirmod. Nonumy amet id vel iriure elitr facilisis nonummy. Accusam tincidunt iusto ut amet dolore eos erat dolore praesent nostrud accusam eos commodo sadipscing duis voluptua vero hendrerit. In vulputate ea sed dolore rebum tempor ea. Minim commodo duo clita aliquyam amet esse ipsum gubergren labore magna in gubergren ut duo. At ea eu dolore.
Dolores takimata ipsum nonumy magna diam magna placerat invidunt consetetur sea magna dolor justo elitr. Consetetur dolore lobortis eirmod lorem vero tation takimata lorem. Sit clita eirmod elit et augue ea et feugiat elitr rebum illum invidunt. Ut eirmod ipsum nam sit aliquyam amet amet suscipit ut est. Magna molestie et consetetur sit sed aliquyam sed nonumy justo diam amet et dolore. Dolor ullamcorper option ipsum kasd dolores invidunt et clita.
Sample Output H4
Accumsan et ut consequat. Justo clita sed magna ea ut lorem elitr justo ipsum sed euismod. Amet et illum vulputate augue elit sanctus est accusam gubergren. Consetetur enim ipsum dolor amet esse te diam eos minim ut takimata magna erat vel ex duo. Vero at et tempor eirmod amet enim dolore labore accumsan diam. Magna dolore dolor kasd eirmod ea diam ea sed eirmod consetetur sed ullamcorper.
Et duo voluptua sed aliquyam consetetur ea. Ipsum sadipscing ipsum rebum. Esse consectetuer aliquip et duis labore sed invidunt sanctus accusam hendrerit lorem. Enim gubergren tempor rebum magna. Et diam iriure volutpat sea eum. Erat sanctus duo option dolor aliquam. Dolores adipiscing tincidunt est. Ad aliquam consetetur facilisis et dolor ut feugait eirmod tation lorem gubergren et clita feugiat consetetur amet no et. Iriure amet est invidunt erat at justo sed dolor eum tempor accumsan ea sed. Et voluptua ea diam aliquam eos dolor facilisi tempor sanctus tincidunt voluptua no. Ut dolores dolor exerci clita option.
Sample Output H4
Sea sadipscing et sed. Voluptua at tincidunt mazim amet vel. Dolore ut invidunt. Enim tempor facer aliquyam. Erat ipsum ipsum at in tation diam justo clita ipsum te feugait labore. Iusto ea placerat.
Consetetur clita et diam minim consequat est placerat erat rebum. Vero no diam enim erat amet amet duo sea zzril consectetuer ut facilisis sadipscing et labore labore. Dolor ipsum eos elitr consetetur ea tincidunt zzril molestie ut sit duo justo facilisis ut ea. Nobis diam qui. Voluptua at eos accusam amet sadipscing elitr. Dolore vulputate lorem lorem vero labore. Vero dolore ea dolor nonumy eu tempor no nonumy at nulla accusam et aliquyam ipsum aliquyam ullamcorper veniam. Odio kasd sit accusam lorem elitr eirmod diam dolore no dolor sed. Amet kasd et sit lorem ea facilisis.
More Sample Output H2
Dolore et sit et et no eos nonumy dolore dolore at. Erat amet takimata. Ea est laoreet et. Sit sadipscing enim. Voluptua ipsum nonumy duo sit. Amet labore ipsum aliquyam dolores at lorem et diam lorem ipsum sed lobortis lorem dolores consectetuer sanctus justo ut. Erat nonumy lorem nonummy consequat sed sit et. Eirmod illum et sit tempor at suscipit erat et vulputate tempor ea duo esse et vero duo nisl. Sit dolore clita accusam labore rebum clita kasd dolores quod tempor voluptua in soluta at invidunt et diam. Amet aliquyam sadipscing diam sea imperdiet magna iusto consetetur odio eirmod et. Justo elitr magna ut voluptua delenit tempor et takimata dolor.
Diam veniam no magna no duis sit duo. Iusto rebum takimata ut lorem iriure invidunt. Duo ut congue in et takimata duo stet elitr no diam facer sed. Dolore et ex ea dolore et gubergren nisl et placerat et aliquyam dolore nulla takimata erat facilisi. Sit sit eirmod nonumy sadipscing sed lorem et aliquyam gubergren duo est at sed vel. Magna ullamcorper velit eirmod feugait justo et et dolore sea. Sadipscing amet sanctus stet stet ipsum amet facer sit eirmod sadipscing tempor vero sanctus.
Sample Output H3
Amet velit dolores. Esse labore et duis sit et duo minim magna aliquyam tincidunt molestie invidunt delenit gubergren doming at sit. Consequat et voluptua amet no. Erat diam iriure option et amet dolor ut sed nulla no feugiat erat stet nulla justo nisl. Et delenit sanctus sea dolor duo consequat kasd et feugiat option vero. Et nibh takimata lobortis duis sea et magna no eros molestie erat et. Dolores nulla labore magna dolor eos dolor et iriure et accusam nulla nonummy et. Minim duo tempor dolores kasd exerci dolor et eos kasd sed tempor sed odio et vulputate clita takimata dolores. Dolore invidunt sit erat dolor erat et aliquyam et consequat magna autem sit. Dolore tempor et sed sed lobortis rebum nulla at ipsum diam est ex magna ut augue. Hendrerit et dolore nonumy facilisis et vero et elitr clita eos feugiat tempor aliquyam nihil invidunt ipsum tempor.
Ut nulla amet justo sea at dolor sed zzril ea sit voluptua. Diam quis nonumy sit clita lorem sadipscing. Stet sit aliquyam elitr diam takimata. Veniam justo consequat sadipscing te no vero et zzril option ex. Tempor et erat diam te veniam accusam sed nonumy suscipit ut praesent labore lobortis iriure et sed. Diam illum wisi sadipscing.
Sample Output H4
Et nulla minim ipsum est amet sadipscing amet justo lorem. Dolor minim et ex duis sanctus consequat ut ipsum et lorem no diam consectetuer molestie. Ad ut et lobortis nostrud clita accusam at. Lorem ut eos esse lorem dolores dolor invidunt dolore et nonumy dolore no option tincidunt accusam takimata. Quis eirmod duo facilisis. Et dolor exerci rebum amet stet facilisis eum facer sit magna duis eos at enim laoreet esse dolor justo.
Sanctus magna invidunt eos enim eirmod eirmod elitr. Rebum et mazim commodo invidunt ipsum aliquam ipsum ipsum sanctus molestie elitr velit aliquyam. Ipsum dolor nulla dolor vero erat erat. Consequat takimata duis ipsum takimata diam lorem. Elitr sit dolor nobis lorem lorem vero nonumy diam lorem dolore lorem ut vero vero sit elitr hendrerit accusam.
Sample Output H4
In justo ea et accusam no elitr dignissim dolor ipsum. Diam eros amet elitr quis esse sea ipsum diam euismod dolores tincidunt sit nulla magna gubergren amet et vel. Ipsum elitr autem luptatum dolore lorem justo labore sit. Consequat magna justo ipsum voluptua est. Rebum diam diam. Et dolore sed elitr minim duo magna diam lorem elitr et labore vel te invidunt. Erat sed kasd diam invidunt dolore sed eirmod erat sanctus sadipscing aliquip at dolore invidunt. Consetetur et facilisis tincidunt duo vulputate assum magna iriure consetetur dolor in lorem sit. Nulla sed tincidunt amet aliquam congue sit consetetur.
Nonumy est takimata takimata eos sed duo sanctus aliquyam eos lorem et sed magna nonumy iusto et placerat aliquyam. Ipsum suscipit vulputate sit ut feugait sit magna illum dolor sadipscing et. Volutpat et qui magna sanctus facilisi aliquyam sed ut ut eos vero kasd aliquyam feugait clita. Dolor nulla eu. Hendrerit commodo lorem. Vero feugiat vel invidunt vel clita congue sed sed stet magna vulputate et tincidunt labore sit quis luptatum eos. Amet vero aliquyam elitr et enim quis. Vulputate sed sed magna accusam. Magna at consequat sadipscing gubergren lorem iriure aliquyam et duo eos hendrerit no at eum illum vero esse.
Sample Output H3
Kasd amet dolor possim et erat no sed. Wisi labore ipsum kasd ex hendrerit no amet dolores at ut sadipscing lorem iusto sit. Dolor sanctus autem sed tempor dolores justo est tation ipsum dolore mazim sadipscing sed magna sed gubergren sea sit. Ut gubergren sea et molestie iriure takimata dolore magna eos clita dolor liber. Ipsum eos kasd et consetetur dolores nonummy lorem no tempor dolore. Sea diam sadipscing et consequat sed tempor illum dolor invidunt erat quis. Consectetuer gubergren diam lorem. Dolore duo tempor elitr ut facilisi aliquyam nisl stet et amet soluta nobis vulputate nonummy sit invidunt vel eirmod. Nonumy et gubergren vero labore dolores veniam et duo illum sea est quis et amet sea consequat. Et est lorem aliquyam sed ipsum iriure dolore lorem dolore tempor takimata doming. Magna labore amet ea diam stet takimata sed dolor autem ut aliquip at dolor nonumy sed lorem.
Dignissim ut et dolores gubergren sadipscing ullamcorper stet ipsum adipiscing invidunt. Kasd ut ipsum ipsum elit minim cum amet illum diam et sea ullamcorper amet id erat. Consetetur ad labore tempor lorem. Laoreet lorem amet. Et et erat est no amet ipsum nulla zzril diam nostrud diam gubergren tempor dolor tempor in in in. Rebum dolores sed wisi sea justo sit sadipscing sea gubergren elitr luptatum magna.
Sample Output H4
Sed dolores facer ea rebum justo eirmod erat ut et consectetuer ipsum ipsum ut volutpat amet dolor. Et accusam sanctus veniam. Consequat diam sadipscing feugait adipiscing ut aliquip kasd clita nihil sanctus et et ipsum diam sed kasd voluptua eirmod. Sit sed adipiscing lorem sea exerci at consetetur et amet et diam duo ea consetetur voluptua ipsum. Accusam elitr zzril elitr et est sadipscing sit duis ipsum accusam et feugiat amet consectetuer. Dolore diam sed diam sit diam diam amet diam consectetuer eirmod erat est. Gubergren dolor diam dolores et sit doming lorem.
Gubergren elit clita ea. Sea et aliquyam no enim sea tempor labore eirmod sadipscing amet kasd est justo eirmod. Rebum dolor sanctus. Duo mazim sea sed vulputate eos odio iusto erat aliquyam nonumy lorem nonummy accusam zzril. Sea esse eos gubergren et dolores euismod. Clita rebum et labore nulla. Et diam sanctus.
Sample Output H4
Ea dolore lobortis blandit no invidunt labore dolore ipsum lorem sit qui labore eirmod lorem no consetetur justo. Et ut duo ipsum sed sed volutpat. Sea sit amet lorem hendrerit tempor lorem amet amet. Invidunt dolor illum et sanctus et lorem wisi erat sed zzril te et tempor dolor. Consetetur et ipsum voluptua dolor diam gubergren labore at takimata ipsum et eirmod et duo assum no et sea. Sea kasd eos augue commodo dolore vel nulla et kasd erat rebum iriure feugait quis erat dolor eos. No tempor dolor zzril lorem clita amet sed stet vulputate diam. Magna duis praesent sanctus et dolor lorem takimata magna ipsum et. No voluptua justo diam vel tincidunt est ipsum clita et lorem ut rebum ad justo tempor lorem. Molestie amet consetetur rebum sit dolor erat duo nonummy dolore eu et consetetur iriure lorem dolor tation at. Et veniam lobortis.
Dolore rebum dolore dolore in hendrerit erat voluptua hendrerit tempor rebum. Dolores nonumy voluptua tempor lorem consetetur dolor diam justo lorem diam tempor magna clita takimata vero. Kasd sea voluptua et lobortis luptatum tempor ipsum veniam voluptua nonumy dolore sanctus elitr. Aliquyam et labore sed sit. Et invidunt tation rebum ipsum. Vero sed duo. Vel vero minim sit justo tempor. Diam duis nonumy.